Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican has been discussing the prospects of an elevated railway in Boston: "It is the prevailing opinion that the route from Brighton through Cambridge to Boston is the most feasible for an experiment, as the travel is heavy, horse-car accommodations poorer than elsewhere, and the injury to real estate less than over any other route yet talked of. Of course the most politic plan is to run the elevated road up to Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good...
...Frenchman has produced a steam tricycle which he says will enable the rider to travel from fifteen to twenty miles an hour...
Papers will be found today at the Co-operative office and in the auditor's room at Memorial for the signatures of all members of the society who are intending to travel some distance over any of the through railroad lines during the coming Christmas recess. Signatures should be left today. Each member will please place his ticket number and the place to which he will go opposite his name. This will save some labor to those who volunteer to see what can be done in the matter...
...abuse which, as I believe, many have long wished to denounce. The plain language he uses about the mismanagement of our colleges is refreshing, and I hope it may have a wholesome effect. It is, as he says, an abomination and an outrage to allow young men to travel all over the country to play and witness matches, incurring expenses which in many cases their friends cannot afford, wasting time to the neglect of their real work, and exposed to various demoralizing influences. It is the clear duty of college governments to prohibit it absolutely, under penalty of expulsion...
...been noticed in the number of students coming to Harvard from States other than those of New England. No doubt this increase would be more marked if it were not for the great distance of Boston from the Western and Southern States and the correspondingly great cost of travel between these points and Boston. How much the enterprise of the Yale students, in annually securing reduced railroad rates, contributes to the large Western representation in that college it is impossible to say, but it may be safely estimated to be a considerable influence in securing that result...